Bill Text: IL HB5413 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Park District Code. Provides that a joint agreement to provide recreational programs for persons with disabilities that is entered into between a park district and another unit of local government before, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act establishes a special recreation association that is a unit of local government. Provides that, unless otherwise provided in the provisions, a special recreation association shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities of a park district organized under the Code. Provides that a special recreation association is dissolved upon termination of the joint agreement. Provides that nothing in the provisions authorizes a special recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed to levy a tax for recreational programs under the joint agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5413 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5413-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5413 Introduced , by Rep. Laura Faver Dias SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 1205/8-10b from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that a joint agreement to provide recreational programs for persons with disabilities that is entered into between a park district and another unit of local government before, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act establishes a special recreation association that is a unit of local government. Provides that, unless otherwise provided in the provisions, a special recreation association shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities of a park district organized under the Code. Provides that a special recreation association is dissolved upon termination of the joint agreement. Provides that nothing in the provisions authorizes a special recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed to levy a tax for recreational programs under the joint agreement.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing
Section 8-10b as follows:
(70 ILCS 1205/8-10b) (from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2)
Sec. 8-10b. Joint recreational programs for persons with
disabilities.
(a) Any 2 or more park districts, or in counties with a
population of 300,000 or less, a single park district and
another unit of local government, are authorized to take any
action jointly relating to recreational programs for persons
with disabilities that could be taken individually and to
enter into agreements with other park districts and recreation
boards and the corporate authorities of cities, villages and
incorporated towns specified in Sections 11-95-2 and 11-95-3
of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as
amended, or any combination thereof, for the purpose of
providing for the establishment, maintenance and management of
joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities of
all the participating districts and municipal areas, including
provisions for transportation of participants, procedures for
approval of budgets, authorization of expenditures and sharing

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of expenses, location of recreational areas in the area of any
of the participating districts and municipalities, acquisition
of real estate by gift, legacy, grant, or purchase, employment
of a director and other professional workers for such program
who may be employed by one participating district,
municipality or board which shall be reimbursed on a mutually
agreed basis by the other districts, municipalities and boards
that are parties to the joint agreement, authorization for one
municipality, board or district to supply professional workers
for a joint program conducted in another municipality or
district and to provide other requirements for operation of
such joint program as may be desirable.
(b) A joint agreement to provide recreational programs for
person with disabilities that is entered into under this
Section before, on, or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly establishes a
special recreation association that is a unit of local
government, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the
Constitution. Unless otherwise provided by this Section, a
special recreation association shall have all powers, duties,
and responsibilities of a park district organized under this
Code. A special recreation association is dissolved upon
termination of the joint agreement.
(c) Nothing in this Section authorizes a special
recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a
park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed

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